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Fairmount, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It lies near Ramsaeur Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. 772 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Fairmount within Gordon County

On record in Fairmount

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fairmount grew from 720 to 772 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010720
2020772+52 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Georgia DOT Bridge No. 129/00228/00505E, Spanning Salacoa Creek on County Road 228, Fairmount, Gordon County, GA
Georgia DOT Bridge No. 129/00228/00505E, Spanning Salacoa Creek on County Road 228, Fairmount, Gordon County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Gordon County Road 220 Bridge, Spanning Pine Log Creek on County Road 220, Fairmount, Gordon County, GA
Gordon County Road 220 Bridge, Spanning Pine Log Creek on County Road 220, Fairmount, Gordon County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,838 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 104 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism104
Debris and open burning99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fairmount: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H.M. Shellhorse PropertyIronOccurrence
L.P. Byrd PropertyIronPast Producer
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFairmount$5,000A spotter reported 10 to 15 hardwood trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. The report stated that the trees were felled in a confined area and that there were other reports of trees down in the Oakman area. It appeared the storm was propagating downbursts as it moved east. There was rotation and what appeared to be a lowered cloud base.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFairmount$2,000The Gordon County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown onto a power line near Fairmount igniting a fire. A couple of power lines were also down northeast of Calhoun.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindFairmount$1,000Report of tree down at Pinhook Rd and Hwy 411.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFairmount$500North Georgia Power company reported 3 trees on a power line. One transformer blew.
April 2017HailFairmount-The public reported half dollar size hail in Fairmount.
June 2007HailFairmount-The public reported nickel-sized hail.
April 2006HailFairmount-The public reported nickel-sized hail.
October 2005HailFairmount-The public reported penny-sized hail.
December 2004HailFairmount-The public reported penny-sized hail.
April 2003HailFairmount-The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2002HailFairmount-The Gordon county 911 center reported dime size hail.
May 2000HailFairmount-A storm spotter reported dime size hail 4 miles northeast of Fairmount.
June 1999HailFairmount-The public reported dime to golf ball size hail and large tree limbs down.
July 1998HailFairmount-The public reported half dollar size hail.
July 1999HailFairmount-no account filed
June 1995HailFairmount-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gordon County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ryo1.8 miles19
Bobo3.1 miles19
Igo (historical)3.2 miles19
Yarbroughs Mill4.0 miles19
Ranger4.5 miles19
Bowls (historical)5.7 miles19
Sonoraville5.8 miles19
Fambro (historical)5.9 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FairmountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3261129The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355758. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.